travel

The Phoenix Mars Lander has touched down. I sat through the two hour live special on the landing on the Discovery Channel. Seeing the joy on the faces of those who have spent years of their lives waiting for that moment was priceless. During the two hour show there were interviews with many of those […]

I’ve always loved looking at maps. I can spend hours playing around with Google Earth and similar software but I have hesitated on taking the plunge into a portable GPS unit. I don’t know why but I just couldn’t quite bring myself to doing it. But I finally decided to go ahead and spend some […]

Discovery can be fun and once again I was reminded of just how we take for granted the area around us. With St. Louis being the gateway to the west this area is particularly rich in things to see and do. My parents were here visiting and having seen all the major […]